Forcing a veto maybe has a 2% chance of snowballing into something that moves the needle, and there’s no guarantee of that much. Maybe the logic is this will keep the issue alive, where a veto would basically close it for the foreseeable future. Maybe the idea is that this has a 2.5% chance of snowballing into something meaningful. I have a hard time faulting the guy for picking one lottery ticket instead of another.
I guess that’s fair, but it seems like they’d rather have had the vote from the recent citations needed news brief. I think it’s almost certain that Biden uses the lull to not change anything and let it simmer for a bit longer down the road.
3 points
